The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.
If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.
In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.
Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.
After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.
I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.
Life is simply too short to think about everything you put in your mouth, and it's not good for children to see you picking over bits of salad.
Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.
Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.
We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.
I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
My favourite place is at home with my family. My career is really raising my children. I'm still waiting for clarity on the future.
Parents bobble between a nostalgia-infused yearning for their children to play and fear that time spent playing is time lost to more practical pursuits.
The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.
All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for.
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.
My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.
If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.
